Big Day in a Small Town
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| Studio album by Brandy Clark | ||||
| Released | June 10, 2016 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 40:20 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Jay Joyce | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 84/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| The Boston Globe | Positive |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| Spin | 8/10 |
| Uncut | 8/10 |
Big Day in a Small Town is the second studio album by American country music artist Brandy Clark. It was released on June 10, 2016, through Warner Bros. Records. The album was nominated for Best Country Album and the album's second single, "Love Can Go To Hell", was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.
The track "Homecoming Queen" previously appeared on Feels Like Home, the 2013 studio album by Sheryl Crow.
The track "Three Kids, No Husband" previously appeared on the 2014 album Numbered Doors by co-writer Lori McKenna.
The track "Daughter" features Clark's close friend and collaborator Kacey Musgraves on harmony vocals.
Big Day in a Small Town received highly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 84 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on 5 reviews.Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album four and a half stars out of five and states: "Songs rarely come much better than these."Rolling Stone's Will Hermes calls it "music tooled alternately for stadiums and songwriting circles, commercial and public radio, line-dance bars and coffee shops." Additionally, it was the Spin "album of the week" and called "fantastic; often a superb piece of recorded music" by reviewer Alfred Soto.
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